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Using Visual Studio for Crash Dump Debugging

July 15, 2019
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Memory dumps come in two flavors user mode dumps or kernel mode dumps. The user mode dumps is a snapshot of a process ...

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Open Source CLR Instrumentation Engine

July 01, 2019
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I am working with a bunch of really smart folks who have a ton of experience with profiling and diagnostics who have ...

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Time Travel Debugging on Visual Studio Toolbox

June 01, 2019
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I got the opportunity to join Robert Green on Visual Studio Toolbox last week, we got to talk about a new diagnostic ...

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Module vs Assembly

May 21, 2019
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Every day I am learning something new, if not new then I am fixing assumptions. For example I have for years used the ...

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Windows Terminal

May 17, 2019
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I thought when the Window’s console got transparency my life was complete. Well there is so much coming, I am genuinely ...

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Copy, Paste magic in Visual Studio

May 15, 2019
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So I meant to talk about new features in Visual Studio 2019, however, I am seeing really useful features that have ...

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Time Travel Debugging in Azure

May 13, 2019
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When you find an issue or exception in a production environment you actually have two problems. Identifying the issue ...

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Search for settings in Visual Studio

April 29, 2019
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Visual Studio and has been around for a couple of decades and manages to serve the needs of many languages, platforms ...

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Advanced Visual Studio search in Watch, Autos and Local windows

April 09, 2019
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One of my favorite features in Visual Studio 2019 has to be the new search capabilities in the Watch, Autos and Local ...

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